Epping Forest District Council Representations to the Draft Local Plan Consultation 2016 (Regulation 18)

Stakeholder ID 1733 Name Patrick Coyne

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Survey Response: 1. Do you agree with the overall vision that the Draft Plan sets out for District? Strongly disagree Please explain your choice in Question 1: The vision seeks to protect the green belt, but the draft local plan fails to do this and will result in the loss of many clear and definable green belt boundaries.

2. Do you agree with the overall vision that the Draft Plan sets out for ? Strongly disagree Please explain your choice in Question 2: No the incursion into the green belt have been ill-thought out, and there is no detailed justification for 360 new homes in and around Theydon Bois.

3. Do you agree with the proposals for development around ? No opinion Please explain your choice in Question 3: While we believe it is more sustainable to focus development on towns, any approach that encroaches into the Green belt is not welcome.

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4. Do you agree with the proposed shopping area in… Epping? No opinion ? Yes Broadway? Yes ? No opinion Loughton High Road? No opinion ? No opinion Please explain your choice in Question 4: Creating primary shopping areas should help focus retail development in these areas, but it should be implemented so as not to undermine existing local facilities that are found within the smaller settlements of the district.

5. Do you agree with the proposals for new employment development? Strongly disagree Please explain your choice in Question 5: No EFDC's p[lans for employment development on Green Belt sites are not sustainable and will have adverse impacts on transport links, infastructure and local job opportunties.

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6. Do you agree with the proposed sites in your area? Epping (Draft Policy P 1): No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on Epping: Loughton (Draft Policy P 2) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on Loughton: Waltham Abbey (Draft Policy P 3) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on Waltham Abbey: Chipping Ongar (Draft Policy P 4) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on Chipping Ongar: Buckhurst Hill (Draft Policy P 5) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on Buckhurst Hill: (Draft Policy P 6) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on North Weald Bassett: (Draft Policy P 7) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on North Weald Bassett: Theydon Bois (Draft Policy P 8) No Please provide reasons for your view on Theydon Bois: Four of the Theydon Bois sites are in the Green Belt and these parts of the Green Belt have been identified as suffering a high or very high level of harm should they be allocated for housing. 360 new house in and around

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Stakeholder ID 1733 Name Patrick Coyne

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Theydon Bois is a disportortionate allocation and amounts to a 23% increase in the size of our village which will destroy our present character and therefore not comply with EFDC's vision Roydon (Draft Policy P 9) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on Roydon: (Draft Policy P 10) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on Nazeing: Thornwood (Draft Policy P 11) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on Thornwood: , Fyfield, , Lower , Moreton, Sewardstonbury, Sheering, Stapleford Abbots (Draft Policy P 12) No opinion Please provide reasons for your view on Coopersale, Fyfield, High Ongar, , Moreton, Sewardstonbury, Sheering, Stapleford Abbots:

7. Do you agree with the approach to infrastructure provision being proposed in the plan? Strongly disagree Please explain your choice in Question 7: no. The plan does not state what the specific requirements for infrastructure will be.

8. An Interim Sustainability Appraisal has been commissioned to support the Draft Local Plan. We would welcome any comments you may have on this. The interim sustainability Appraisal does not support the wide dispersal of developmenmt in and around the large and small villages of the district. In respect of theydon bois the transport links are already at capicity and the underground is well over capicity at peak times

9. Do you wish to comment on any other policies in the Draft Local Plan? The policies are severly lacking for example, there are no detailed Green Belt policies to define disaproportionate extensions to properties in the Green belt, or direct what is meant by materially larger. The plan is poorly thought out and would not improve the local character of villages such as Theydon.

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Stakeholder ID 1733 Name Patrick Coyne

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